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Coords above are for parking, it's free parking in the small layby
outside the carpark. All you need to do is locate the noticeboard,
if you can't find the noticeboard and you're on top, just come down
the other way.
To claim this cache just answer these questions from the
noticeboard near the base of the hill next to the tree.
1)What D is found at the second bench?
2)What E is at 239M?
3)What G is at the top?
Roseberry Topping is a distinctive hill on the border between North
Yorkshire and the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, England, of
which it has long been a symbol. Its summit has a distinctive
half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, which has led to many
comparisons with the much higher Matterhorn in Switzerland.
At 1049 ft (320 m), Roseberry Topping was traditionally thought to
be the highest hill on the North York Moors, however, the nearby
Urra Moor is higher, at 1490 ft (454 m). The hill is an outlier of
the North York Moors uplands. It is formed from sandstone laid down
in the Middle and Lower Jurassic periods, between 208 and 165
million years ago, which constitutes the youngest sandstone to be
found in any of the National Parks in England and Wales. Its
distinctive conical shape is the result of the hill's hard
sandstone cap protecting the underlying shales and clays from
erosion by the effects of ice, wind and rain. Until 1914, the
summit resembled a sugarloaf until a geological fault and possibly
nearby alum and ironstone mining caused its collapse. The area
immediately below the summit is still extensively pitted and
scarred from the former mineworks. The summit has magnificent views
across the Cleveland plain as far as the Pennines on a clear day,
some 60 to 80 km (40 to 50 miles) away.
The hill was held in special regard by the Vikings who settled in
Cleveland in large numbers during the early medieval period and
gave the area many of its place names. They gave Roseberry Topping
its present name, which is one of only a handful of known pagan
names in England. "Roseberry" came from Old Norse Óðins bjarg
("Odin's rock or crag"), after the Norse god Odin. The name changed
successively to Othensberg, Ohenseberg, Ounsberry and Ouesberry
before finally settling on Roseberry. "Topping" is a corruption of
toppen, an Old Norse word for a hill. The naming of the hill
followed a well-established pattern in continental Europe of hills
and mountains being named after Odin or the Germanic equivalent,
Wodan. Ælfric of Eynsham, writing in the 10th century, recorded how
"the heathens made him into a celebrated god and made offerings to
him at crossroads and brought oblations to high hills for him. This
god was honoured among all heathens and he is called ... Oðon in
Danish."
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Va zrzbel 1942 - 2008
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